Software Engineer | Solution Validation, Benchmarking & Release Engineer | 8+ years

123 Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems India Private Limited in Karnataka is seeking an experienced software engineer to contribute to design thinking‑driven software with a focus on secure coding, UX, and scalable solutions.

The role involves working independently with minimal guidance, mentoring peers, and collaborating with design and product management to deliver high‑quality features. You will write clean code, review systems, and help improve the SDLC and agile practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with several years of related experience.
• Solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family; has worked with a range of technologies.

Responsibilities

• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance.
• Mentors peers or more junior team members.
• Leads delivery of high‑quality design of features and deliverables.
• Identifies opportunities for multiple products to work together to create value for customers.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Meet The Team Develops software consistent with Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’ with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

Your Impact

• Advanced experienced professional using best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Works independently but receives minimal guidance and direction from leader then determines best approach to accomplish work.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• Understands project and/or department needs and establishes relationships with appropriate cross‑functional stakeholders to gather input, collect information and complete work steps.
• May lead projects from end-to-end through delegation, review, and driving results holistically.
• May lead medium features from technical design through completion.
• May contribute to a defined software engineering roadmap.
• Identifies and recommends improvements to the software development lifecycle and best practices in agile engineering.
• Leads delivery of high‑quality design of features and deliverables.
• Identifies opportunities for multiple products to work together to create value for customers.
• Integrates product sense as it relates to design of the product (market awareness, production adoption, competition) and tracks related metrics.
• Writes functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance.
• Maintains and enhances solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary.
• Identifies immediate and larger scope problems through thorough code reviews.
• Tests and reviews code to optimize scale, velocity, and reliability of deliverables.
• Contributes to threat modeling of a feature.
• Monitors the production environment and works cross‑functionally to identify problems and track production systems.
• May serve as escalation point for on‑call issues.
• Leads postmortem and writes root cause analysis.
• Expert on multiple functional components.
• Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad‑hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters).
• Coordinates across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements.
• Tracks milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross‑functional partners.
• Mentors peers or more junior team members.
• Assists other engineers through code reviews, documentation, and technical guidance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience OR Masters + 4 years of related experience OR PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• Requires solid conceptual and practical knowledge in primary technical job family and knowledge of related technical job families; has worked with a range of technologies.

Preferred Qualifications Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn’t just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.